Description
A renegade team of engineers and airship enthusiasts pursues an audacious dream: a radically new aircraft combining the lift of a rigid airship with the capabilities of a plane. As they develop and test their unconventional “aerobody,” they face technical obstacles, financial pressures, and the skepticism surrounding an idea that challenges the boundaries of aviation. Drawing on an extraordinary Navy mission and journey aboard a blimp, the narrative explores invention, perseverance, risk, and the stubborn faith required to make an improbable vision take flight.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Apr 1, 2011
193 pages
ISBN: 9780374708627
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First Published
1963
Language
eng
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